Question

Write an essay about - Adversity Brings out the Best in Man

Answer 1

Adversity shapes men better than any thing else. It brings out the best of them. It reveals to them their innate virtues. It makes them aware of their real friends, gives them self-knowledge and self-confidence. Prosperity makes people passive. Adversity makes people active. It tests a man’s self-confidence, fortitude and patience. It elicits talents which remains dormant in prosperity. Gandhi might not have attained his full stature had the British not maltreated him in Africa.

Jawahar Lal Nehru might not have become what he became if the British had not massacred thousands of Indians in 1919. It is only the test of adversity which proves one’s heroic qualities. It not only test our qualities, but also polishes them. One should be an optimist. Adversity is not for ever. It lasts for a short time. One should face it with confidence. Shelley was perfectly right when he said, “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

Adversity teaches us the great lesson of humanity. It enables us to sympathise with the oppressed humanity. It give us the ideal of wiping every tear from every eye. It prepares us to literate the enslaved humanity. It makes us break the bond of orthodoxy, superstition and social tyranny.